It all started in 2007, when I was in high school. My dad and I were searching for something to do on a weekend together to kill time and boredom. Then I heard about this thing called Ubuntu. An event was scheduled at La Cité des Sciences in Paris, called an “Ubuntu Party”. A day, open to every curious person like us, full of conferences about FOSS. I had a stimulus. That day, I knew what I wanted to do.

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Later that year, my dream at the time came true. We went road tripping to the west coast, landing right here, in Los Angeles. My first trip overseas.

And here we are, 17 years later, at the same place, to share my experience of setting up a personal project running on free and open source software, based on the idea that we don’t need to depend on cloud providers to hold our own data.

From the bottom of my heart, I would like to thank the organizers for selecting my talk. It means a lot to me.

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